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Inserted: 5 jun 2019
Last Updated: 9 mar 2022

Journal: Mathematics in Engineering
Volume: 2
Number: 1
Pages: 141-173
Year: 2020
Doi: 10.3934/mine.2020008

Abstract:

We show the existence of quasistatic evolutions in a fracture model for brittle materials by a vanishing viscosity approach, in the setting of planar linearized elasticity. The crack is not prescribed a priori and is selected in a class of (unions of) regular curves. To prove the result, it is crucial to analyze the properties of the energy release rate.

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